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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Ted Turner

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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
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